Principles and Practice of Child Neurology in Infancy
PGMKP - A Practical Guide from MKP
1. Edition November 2012
384 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
This handbook of neurological practice in infants is designed to be of practical use to all clinicians, but particularly those in under-resourced locations. Seventy per cent of children with disabilities live in resource-poor countries and most of these children have neurological impairments. This book presents recommendations for investigations and treatments based on internationally accepted good practice that can be implemented in most settings. The book is divided into two parts: Principles and Clinical settings, with the latter taking a symptom-based approach. The contributors have approached their chapters using an accessible, didactic style and consistent organization of material. The emphasis throughout is on clinical methods, the use of appropriate investigations and treatments, and the avoidance of unnecessary or potentially harmful interventions. For quick reference, all chapters feature boxes highlighting key messages, common errors, and when to worry. The book is designed to be carried round as a handy reference.
Readership
All those providing care for children with neurological problems, including those in resource-poor settings. This includes paediatric neurologists but also neonatologists, general paediatricians, community paediatricians, specialists in neurodisability, paediatric rehabilitation, epilepsy and paediatric neurology. The book also includes information that would be useful to specialist nurses and final-year medical students.
1 Terms, definitions and concepts - Colin Kennedy
2 Interprofessional working: user and carer involvement -
Audrone Prasauskiene and Maryze Schoneveld van der Linde
3 Clinical epidemiology and evidence-based medicine -
Andrew L. Lux
4 Promoting child development - Boika Rechel and Dainius
Puras
5 Neurological and neurodevelopmental assessment - Leena
Haataja, Vittorio Belmonti and Giovanni Cioni
6 Prevention of neurological disease in infants - Jane Williams
and Colin Kennedy
7 Cranial imaging - Brigitte Vollmer
8 Neurophysiological investigations - Bernhard Schmitt and
Varsine Jaladyan
9 Biochemical and haematological testing - Valerie Walker and
Mary Morgan
10 Drug treatments: drugs, vitamins and minerals - Imti Choonara
and Peter Baxter
11 Nonpharmacological treatment - Ilona Autti-Rämö
PART 2: PRACTICE CLINICAL SETTINGS
12 Neonatal encephalopathy - Gian Paolo Chiaffoni and Daniele
Trevisanuto
13 Neonatal seizures, including metabolic epileptic
encephalopathies - Barbara Plecko
14 Acute non-febrile encephalopathy - Tiina Talvik, Fenella
Kirkham, Tuuli Metsvaht and Inga Talvik
15 Acute neurological illness with fever: meningitis,
encephalitis and infective space-occupying lesions - Rachel Kneen
and Charles Newton
16 Post-neonatal epileptic seizures - Hans Hartmann and J. Helen
Cross
17 Non-epileptic paroxysmal disorders in infancy - John B.P.
Stephenson and Alla Nechay
18 Macrocephaly, including hydrocephalus - Colin Kennedy
19 Microcephaly, including congenital infections - Richard Chin
and Vlatka Mejaski-Bosnjak
20 The floppy infant - Ulrika Ådén and Thomas
Sejersen
21 Early developmental impairment and neurological abnormalities
at birth - Richard W. Newton, Ilona Autti-Rämö and
Audrone Prasauskiene
22 Cerebral palsy - Florian Heinen and Peter Baxter
23 Central nervous system disorders of movement other than
cerebral palsy - Peter Baxter and Florian Heinen
24 Progressive loss of skills - Meral Topcu, Dilek
Yalnyzoglu and Richard Newton
Appendix 1: Growth charts
